Plextor releases 12x DVD+R recorder.
The 712 multiformat ( +R / -R ) can burn DVD+R
media at 12x speed and DVD-R media at 8x speed. It is available
in white and black front panel and attaches to a standard EIDE controller.
A S-ATA version i announced to appear dring the
month of may.
Full specs :12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD+RW, 4X DVD-RW,
16X DVD-ROM, 48X CD-R, 24X CD-RW and 48X CD-ROM
MSI released two new MEGA barebone chassis
One for Intel based and on for AMD based processors.
Both chassis have a sleek stylish look with a large color LCD display
on the front. THey are the succesors to the MEGA651 we described
earlier in our Home Theatre PC article.
Building on the rich feature set of the 651 these
chassis sport latest generation chipsets ( 865G for intel and nForce2
for AMD) and offer added features such as Built-in WiFi
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Mega 865
• Supports Socket 478 for Intel ® Pentium™4
and Celeron® processors up to 3.06GHz+
• Intel 865G +ICH5 Chipset
• Supports up to 2 DIMMs , 2.0GB DDR400 memory
• Supports 1 x 8X AGP Slot
• Supports 1 x PCI 32 bit Slot
• Supports 1 x IDE or S-ATA Drive
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MEGA180 (for AMD )
• Supports Socket 462 for AMD® Duron™ and Athlon™ XP processors
up to 3000+
• nVIDIA nForce2 (Crush 18G) + MCP2T Chipset
• Supports up to 2 DIMMs , 2.0GB DDR 333 memory
• Supports 1 x 8X AGP Slot
• Supports 1 x PCI 32 bit Slot
• Dual VGA out
• S-Video Out
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HP introdcues new technology : Lightscribe
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This allows you to label CD's using the
recorder. Lightscribe equipped recorders are able to write
text and images directly to the top side of the CD's. No consumables,
no ink no labels. All you need is lighscribe compatil media.
The top layer is coated with a layer that reacts to the laser
inside the lightscribe drive. Multiple hardware vendors like
Hitachi, Toshiba, LG and others have already licenced the
technology. First drives will be introduced still this summer.
Look for the Lightscribe logo. |
ON the right is a sample image of a disc that
was labeled using the lightscribe technology. The additional
cost to the drive is in the order of a few dollars ( estimated
about 10 $) since all that is needed is some additional drive
frimware to write the image.
The process is pretty simple First burn you information as
you would do with any ordinary drive. When done simply eject
the disc, flip it over and launch the lightscribe program.
Make your image and burn it. Done.
The advantage is that you can now label cd's instantly without
needing a printer. Great if travelling on the road using a
laptop.
SImple text takes about 2 minutes ot burn but complex full
disc images can take up to 20 minutes to burn. Fortunately
the drive can work on its own while you do other stuff on
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Sony announces Dual layer DVD recorder : DRU700-A
Expected Q2 of this year (most likely around May)
this will be the first drive that can record to Dual layer Media.
Dual layer media (so called DVD+R9 media) allows you to store almost
8.5 gigabyte on a disk. Not quite the capacity of stamped DVD's
but pretty close.
The DVD+R( discs will be written at 2.4 speed.
For regular media the drive has some impressive
specs:
The Drive is a multistandard drive (what else would
you expect these days) and DVD+R/DVD-R will feature 8-Speed recording
while DVD+RW/DVD-RW will be written at up to 4 Speed.
Estimated introduction price will be around 199 Euro's and an external
version DRX-700UL will be made available later this year.
Philips and Mediatek, the two biggest producers of DVD recorder
chipsets have announced that for some chipset a firmware update
will be made avaialble that will allow you to record DVD+R9 on existing
chassis based on their chipset.
MEdia mill be avaialble from MCC ( Mitsubishi Chemicals who now
makes about 30 % of all dvd recordable media ) and will roughly
cost double of a ingle layer disc.
HP and Philips also announced that they will relase their dual
layer drive soon after Sony.
Eight speed DVD recording: the race is on
(dec2003)
With the DVD recorder industry booming, prices ever falling, and
every manufacturer having multi-standard drives, the race for the
highest speed is on. MSI and BTC both introduce 8 speed recorders
with remarkable features.
 The
MSI multistandard (+R/-R) drive DR-8A records DVD+R
at up to 8 speed (on 8x media of course) and performs all other
DVD recording operations,except DVD-RW that is 2 speed, at up to
4 speed. DVD reading is 12 speed and CD recording and playback happen
at 40 speed.CD rewriting happens at up to 24 speed. Buffer-underrun
protection and an anti-bump technology make the recording process
rock-solid and guaranteed, and reduce the production of 'coasters'
to defective media only. Nero , PowerDVD and MyDVD and ShowBiz are
supplied as software
A unique feature of this drive is the HD-Burn capability.
This technology, developed by Sanyo, allows you to story 1.4 Gigabyte
on a standard CD. These CD is readable on most DVD players (not
on CD players !). Basically the same pit-density and pit-geometry
of the DVD format is written to a CD. But since the CD has less
track density than a DVD this levels out to 1.4 Gigabyte. Great
for low-cost home-movie storage. HD-Burn is a new technology tandard
and more drives are expected to be able to read these discs soon
As always, MSI is ready at the forefront and introduces ther drives
with this technology now. www.msi.com.tw
. BTC,
the king of low prices, als introduces a new 8 speed recorder. The
BTC1008A offers 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-R and DVD+RW Write and
2x DVD-RW Rewrite
CD-rom is handled ate 40x CD-R read and write, and 24x CD-RW Rewrite.
DVD-ROM can be read at 12 speed
More information can be found at www.btc-europe.com
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